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Evening Star, Issue 3367, 4 December 1873, Page 2

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HIGH WATKB. To-morrow. ffpvm I Poet Chalmers j Dunedin 3.23 pan. I « p.m. I LIS IMPORT CHALMERS. arrived. December 3.—Samson, p.s., 121 tons, Edic, from Oamaru. SAILED. December 4. Lenore, tans, Durand, for Lyttelton. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Avvarua, for Bluff, Dor. •' Alhambra, for Bluff, Deo, K. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, Dec. .. Hadda, for Hong Kong, January ■> Jane, for Moevaki, early _ . Lady of the Lake, for Riverton, Deo. (» Maori, for Lyttelton, early Omoo, for Northern Ports, December (> Peter Denny, for London, early Samson, for Oamaru, Dee. 5 Wellington, for Northern I m-ts, Dec. .» Wanganui, for Bluff, Doc. 0 Wallabi, for Bluff, Deo. 0 Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay this day Ships; Jessie Headman, Lady Jocelyn, Peter Denny, Otago, Zeahuulia. Barques : ( omnibus, Southern Cross, Free Trader, (dynipse. At the Railway Pier-Ships ; May Queen, Christian M'Auslaml, Barque: Jane Rowland. There are only two vessels discharging at the railway pier, the Christian MAusland anil May Queen. The barque Jane Rowland discharged the last of the Dunedin portion of her cargo yesterday afternoon, and the brig Emperor finished discharging into lighters tins morning. -Both vessels proceed to Lyttelton with the remainder of their cargoes. There have been no arrivals tins morning, and only one departure, the .Trench barque Lenore, which took advantage of the S.NV. wind, and sailed for Lyttelton. , f The Harbor Co.’s p.s. Samson returned from Oamaru last night. Her passengers were conveyed to Dunedin by the steamer Holden Age. The Gulden Age transhipped a quantity of cargo from the railway pier to the barque Columbus. ~ , Yesterday, at high water, an attempt was made to bring the Zealand™ alongside the railway pier, but owing to the violence ut the S W gale, it was deemed prudent to moor her again. Later in the day, the weather having moderated, the Geelong and Golden Age made another attempt, and managed, after a deal of trouble, to get the ship near the jetty ; but the weather was too rough, and the two lines winch the two steamers had rim on shore parted. They then removed her into the stream, and left her for the night. The Geelong was to take her alongside the jetty this morning. A trial of Cornish’s patent life-preserving mattress was made yesterday at the Sandndge baths. It is proposed that ships should take these matt, esses to sea, instead of those ordinarily used iu the berths, so that m case of a wreck, or a ship foundering, or a man going overboard, the bedding might be utilised as a life-preserving agent. _ The mattresses aie stuffed with some material, the constitution of which is a patented secret, and which rendois them very buoyant, and uuskiuable even when soaked through. They are provided with bands, so that several may be tied together to form a raft. Several experiments were made yesterday, which showed that any one of the mattresses would keep afloat with a man sitting or lying at full length upon it. A number were tied together, two of them having battens lashed along them which kept them rigid in the water, and three heavy men tloated about on them in perfect safety. Ihe invention appeared to be a good unv.—Aryi'*, November 21.